On 25 Feb 2009, at 09:55, Kevin Callahan wrote: > > http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/02/25-3 > > Scientists Find Bigger than Expected Polar Ice Melt > GENEVA - Icecaps around the North and South Poles are melting > faster and in a more widespread manner than expected, raising sea > levels and fuelling climate change, a major scientific survey > showed Wednesday. > > > > The International Polar Year survey found that warming in the > Antarctic is "much more widespread than was thought," while Arctic > sea ice is diminishing and the melting of Greenland's ice cover is > accelerating.
Now aren't we all glad that we've got all that extra CO_2 in the atmosphere keeping things warm? Since without it we'd probably be looking at very serious cooling and potential ice age from all the artic ice melt diluting the salinity of the N Atlantic and diminishing the northward reach of the Gulf Stream. Dave -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe." -- Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
